There's some truth, and a lot of stupidity, in this thread.
I'll try to avoid writing a soliloquy - because much of it has already been covered ad nauseam..... like in the posted link:
Anyone who wants to rehash most of that stuff can find it all laid out in this thread:
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/bot-nominating-period-begins-today.258332/page-3#post-4634863
But I'll just make a couple points:
1) Thinking that I would - for example - call Dambly out as a "c^cks^cker" (even though it is abundantly true 
), just to piss him off, is idiotic.
Not because I say so, but because it is proven - abundantly.
Just a little anectdote:
Just yesterday, while sitting through hours and hours of those meetings.... something that I do just so that SOMEONE will be there to try to provide the truth of what goes on, and share it with Penn Staters (including folks on this board).... I find myself sitting 5 feet away from two of your Trustees, holding a conversation about which one of them is more "generous in sharing their wealth" (folks could probably make a pretty good guess as to who those folks are
) ..... all while acting as nothing other than the most self-serving, hypocritcal parasites possible.
Now, knowing what I know about those characters, it would be very easy to - hell, it would be abundantly justified - to reach over and rip out their throats...... certainly more than justifed to stand up and call out their "c^cksuckery". ESPECIALLY when one doesn't have any other means through which to hold them accountable.
But, time after time after time.... I don't. Why? Because that wouldn't serve the purpose.
The PURPOSE, is not to piss off Dambly, or to make Barron piss his pants, the purpose is to try to enlighten folks with the hope of catalyzing at least a small ember of demand for proper governance of the University.
So that whole song-and-dance that as a Trustee - who is given the standing to actually do the job (which is all one needs to do) - I would be calling out Masser as a retard, and calling Barron a c^cks^cker..... is just stupidity.
Not because I said so, but because logic - and the facts and actions over years and years - simply prove that to be so.
If certain folks want to keep beating that drum? Fine (see Item 3
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2) The thing that is needed, is to have folks on the Board who will do their damn job.
In doing so - if they do it right - are they gonna' piss of Dambly? Are they gonna' make Barron piss his pants? Are they gonna' be looked at as "enemies" by Masser and Lubert and the rest of the cabal?
Damn right they are. But that's not the goal - that is the result of doing your damn job.
Someone sitting in one of those Trustee seats has no need to call Dambly a c^cks^cker - they just have to do their job.... and the world (or, at least, anyone paying attention), will see Dambly's c^cks^ckery clearly enough - - - - when he is thrown into the spotlight by others doing their job. THAT is the goal.
3) Now, as for the "attacks" (for lack of a better term) on me in this thread..... is there some Truth in some of the comments? Yep, for sure.
I DON'T care what a lot of the anonymous "Screen Names" here think about me. There are probably 20-30 folks who post here who I know, to one degree or another (and who know me). The vast majority of those folks are good folks - and I do care what they think.
Those folks who stay hidden in complete anonimity? Sure, fine, that's their right - and it doesn;t mean they are bad people.....
But, yeah, in many cases there is a reason for that. Just as with the PSU Board - the more one tries to keep things hidden, the more likely it is that what is being kept hidden is "no bueno".
Those folks who want someone to tell them what they want to hear? Those folks who, for whatever reason, prefer to be sung a lullaby - and be told everything is hunky-dory, or who prefer to live in some fantasy-land where all of the obvious issues and dysfunctions of PSU governance simply can be ignored? Those folks who are more comfortable avoiding the truth and the facts, and just want someone to feed them a line of hypocritical nonsense, and pick up the pom-poms to lead the cheers?
Yep. Screw Them.
"Screw Them" not because I am oblivious or naive to not recognize that pandering to that demographic would greatly enhance one's chances to "Win a seat on the Board"...... hell, that is plenty obvious just in watching what has happened over the last 8 years.
Some have suggested - some very directly, some more discreetly... some with good intentions, some without - that I should play that game - to pander and be "self-serving", so as to "Win a seat on the Board" - and then I can have access to do what I think is right.
But..... I ain't gonna' do that. I ain't gonna' do that for several reasons:
1) It ain't in my nature
2) I simply do not think it is righteous... in fact, I find it distasteful.
3) Being supported by folks who are so easily manipulated by someone selling them a line of recycled oats - folks who give more weight to hypocritical BS, ahead of Actions - isn't really something I desire.
Does that impede the likelihood that I am on the PSU BOT? Certainly.
But "being on the Board" ain't my goal (in fact, having 38 people who's goal IS to be on the Board, is a huge problem).
My goal is righteous governance for the University. Getting into one of those seats by being a pandering, hypocritical bull-shitter doesn't seem - to me - to be a very good way to start.
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4) And this is, I think, an important point - which some folks don't want to face up to:
If you all are electing folks who are NOT viewed by Dambly as an enemy.
If you are NOT electing folks that make Barron want to piss his pants.
If you are not electing folks who introduce at least some element of FEAR into Dambly, Masser, Barron, Lubert ...
If you all are NOT electing folks who are committed to opposing those folks in the most strident manner - with tremendous effort and ability......
YOU ARE ELECTING THE WRONG FOLKS.
Just one specific "for instance" (meant as an example, not to "pick on" one particualr person):
Way back when, 8 years ago, we elected a Trustee who expressed that the Leadership of the Board was like a collection of Third-World Dictators. That they were an unholy cabal.
They were right..... or, at least, what THEY SAID was correct.
- We elected that person.
- Two years later, he was clasping hands and slapping backs with those "Third World DIctators" as - TOGETHER - they were committing malfeasance and serving their own self-interests ahead of those of the University.
- That person would meld into a "Trustee" who, by his actions, was utterly indistinguishable from those "Third World Dictators"
- Hell, we RE-elected that person.... even as he, and they, became busom buddies.
Again, that isn't to "pick on" one person.... because, as a group, the whole lot of them (the folks we elected), BY THEIR ACTIONS AS STEWARDS FOR THE UNIVERISTY - - - largely actions of OMISSION (sloth), and occasionally actions of COMMISSSION (self-interest), have been nearly indistinguishable from those we need to oppose.
You all do what you want.
